The main streets that go through the complex are named after the people who either owned the land or developed the complex.

Georgian Court is named for George Foster, who first moved to Bergenfield in the 1860s. He served on the very fist mayor and council after the borough was incorporated in 1894.

Howard Drive is named in honor of his son, E. Howard Foster, who became the borough's third mayor.

Hunt and Morrissey walks are named in honor of the developers.

Construction plans at the time also called for the building of the Foster Village Shopping Plaza, the first strip mall in Bergenfield and one of the earliest in Bergen County. Before the apartments were built, George Foster's estate existed on the property.

There was also a well that was used by the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

After vacating Fort Lee in November 1776, Gen. George Washington and his forces, who were being pursued by the British Army, retreated through Englewood up Liberty Road, when they stopped at the now non-existent stream for a brief water break.

They then continued on New Bridge Road toward the Hackensack River and then farther south as they made their getaway through New Jersey.

In more recent history, the apartment complex was the site where four borough teenagers killed themselves in a group suicide in one of the complex's garages in 1987.

Currently, however, things are rather normal.

Borough Administrator Rick McGarril said that over the past decade there has not been "any major incidents involving the police or the fire department."